Dan Hegarty - The Alternative

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CHEQUERBOARD’S FIVE-TRACK SHUFFLE

Chequerboard is Irish musician John Lambert who “blends classically tinged acoustic guitar with glitchy electronica.” He's just released the rather wonderful album 'The Unfolding', which has earned some excellent reviews. This week's Five-Track Shuffle comes to you courtesy of Mr Lambert.

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MØ INTERVIEW

After her blistering shows in Ireland this year (at Longitude, The Electric Picnic and guesting with Aluna George at The Academy last month), Dan chats to Danish singer MØ (Karen Marie Ørsted). 2013 has been a great year for her with the singles 'Pilgrim', 'Waste Of Time', and 'XXX 88', which she features the highly regarded Diplo. With her debut album due out in February, it's safe to say that 2014 is going to be a busy year for MØ!

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ALBUMS OF THE WEEK: BLACKBOXRED, MINERAL, & GESAFFELSTEIN

Over the years bands like The White Stripes, The Black Keys, and others have proven that it doesn't take a band of eight individuals to make a big noise. Dutch duo BlackboxRed are a very different kind of act to the aforementioned names, but they know how to amp things up. 'The Gunner and The Ghost' is an inspired debut, full of angst, energy, and thought.

The vocals on Mineral's album 'Plastic Ekphrastic' may sound familiar to you, that's because they belong to Craig Walker of Power Of Dreams. With the help of Alan McGee's (ex Creation Records & Poptones) new label 359 Music, Walker and his French cohorts (Thierry Fournié, S.Armelle, and Damien Li) marry the sound of The Beach Boys, Serge Gainsbourg, and a dash of Prince to make an alt-Electro Pop gem.

Gesaffelstein is one of the new generation of French DJ/Producer/artists. After working with Kanye West, not to mention remixing tracks by Depeche Mode and Lana Del Rey, the man that is known as Mike Levy to friends, family, and credit card company has been adding serious mainstream weight to his credentials. To get straight to the point; his debut album 'Aleph' is going to be one of the albums of 2013.